My daughters have lost their minds. I asked them what the grandkids wanted or needed for Christmas. One proceeds to tell me she has already spent $800 on her two and still wants to get them flat screens. I should just send a check. The kids are 2 and 6. Really?

The other one wants me to buy an Ipad Touch for her 8 year old.

I have repeatedly asked for some new photos of the kids...like send me a disk from your camera...nothing.

I am thinking they better hope Santa shows up...SMH!

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(13-11-2013 09:48 PM)Anjele Wrote: My daughters have lost their minds. I asked them what the grandkids wanted or needed for Christmas. One proceeds to tell me she has already spent $800 on her two and still wants to get them flat screens. I should just send a check. The kids are 2 and 6. Really?

The other one wants me to buy an Ipad Touch for her 8 year old.

I don't say this often, but Jesus Christ!

As a child on Christmas I didn't have any expectations, and when I got a PC game or toy or whatever, I wouldn't care if the rest of the boxes were full of socks, because free game!

Spending $800 on gifts is wasteful, especially for 2 and 6 year-olds who run through toys like rich girls through iPhones. Not only that, but it will set into them expectations of awesome Christmases every year. If they get $800 worth of stuff one year and then $500 the next, they'll be disappointed, or even angry (since they're kids), and not think about how their parents just bought them $500 of stuff they wanted. It can devalue the gifts they receive. "Oh, five Xbox games? Last year I got eight."

Even if you have a lot of money, don't spoil your kids. They'll appreciate gifts more when you give them only some of what they wanted.

I know from hearing the rich kids at school in January every year (and my town has an average household income of around $100k, so there were a lot of them). They'd talk about all the presents they received as though they didn't matter. Basically, "Yeah, I got some games, a TV for my room, and shit. Nothing cool, though." A bunch of games and a TV screen to turn your bedroom into a gaming station, and that's nothing cool? I'd say that's frakkin' awesome.

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